AUTUMN
Your Gardening Guide for March
TROPICAL REGION
AUTUMN
Your Gardening Guide for March
TROPICAL REGION
Welcome to March!
As summer fades, March is the perfect time to refresh your garden for autumn. In most regions, it's the ideal time for planting cool-season veggies like broccoli, spinach, and carrots. Whether you're sowing, tidying, or planning, March is a month of renewal for every Aussie gardener.
March Top Tips
#1 Mulch
In the hot humid weather of March, mulch breaks down very quickly so keep mulching.
#2 Clean up
A general garden clean up is advisable after the wet season and before the vigorous growth of the dry season begins.
#3 Manure and compost
Prepare beds for further planting by applying well rotted manure and compost and dolomite to sweeten the soil. Fork it in and allow maturing for about 2 weeks before planting.
#4 Fertilise
Fertilise trees and perennial plants with trace elements to build the soil up for the dry season and replace micronutrients.
November Essentials
It's time to get planting your last remaining crops in preparation for your summer harvest. We look at the benefits of living mulch and we get our hands dirty planting some strawberries!
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Foliar fungal diseases
Swap from nitrogen rich fertilisers to flower and fruit fertilisers to reduce the risk of foliar fungal diseases.
Grasshoppers
Watch out for grasshoppers, they can be a big nuisance in the garden, feeding on plant leaves, shoots, and roots.
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Citrus leafminer
Keep an eye out for citrus leafminer. If you find them active in your garden, pull off affected leaves, then bag and bin them.
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Diggers top garden idea
Prepare for seed sowing
March is the busiest month for sowing seeds of spring flowers and vegetables. Prepare beds and planter boxes for seeding.
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Diggers top garden idea
Controlling nematodes
Plant marigolds around tomatoes to help with controlling nematodes.
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Plants to plant now
Now is a great time to plant winter tomatoes and subtropical bulbs such as blood lily, eucomis, alstroemeria and hippeastrum.
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